Mfw I'm flashing the bios

>mfw I'm flashing the bios

Why are the stakes so high when you have to flash your bios?

Why haven't they made a fail safe way to flash the bios already?

If you've ever bricked a mobo you know the feel.

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>tfw never updated my BIOS ever
>tfw 10 year old PC

Most motherboards I've seen lately have 2 bios chips, if one doesn't work it boots from the good one.

>tfw not using an arduino to flash your bios

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Yes this has been a thing for almost two decades.

This is a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it. If you have something on your board that doesn't work properly and the update fixes that great. Otherwise I think it's unnecessary

I had to update the BIOS on my machine because it was causing weird shit whenever I booted. Sometimes the anti-surge protector would kick in whenever I booted, or just get stuck on the manufacturer logo on boot.

Thought there was something ronk with my mobo, and I decided to download the manufacturer's new BIOS image and booted into FreeDOS. Flashed that shit, and bootup has been perfect ever since.

I don't think I'll ever do it again though. Too risky, and it works fine.

>Buy some intel motherboard
>Been working good for a while
>Try hackintosh
>"Shit, this works ok, I could probably just use this"
>"Hey user, there's this ozmosis thing, it might work for you"
>After a few attempts, succeed with flashing a modded bios
>"Oh shit it's booting, I didn't kill it!"
>Let's restart
>Wait a minute, what's with all these duplicated entries?
>Wait hold on now it's not booting anything
>Wait wait I can't even access the bios flashing tool for when shit gets bricked
>Oh god what have I done
>Oh god

Sure on high end desktop motherboards. It's rarely seen on laptops.

In my case it did fix it but shit is it scary. I bricked my laptop when I had to flash the bios so I could use an Intel WiFi card.

>his computer still has a BIOS

What are you on about?

This is the worst. The exact moment you know you fucked up.

Doesn't every gigabyte motherboard have this?

UEFI

Yeah. To see it work after being flashed, to boot into hackintosh fine acting all proud and then it slowly dies in agony. Curse that day.

Most, but not every single one. If you go really cheap it might not have it.

they should add a read-only bios as backup and add a hardware switch for it on the motherboard or something.

>Z87 motherboard
>Buy 4690K i5 4440 was falling behind
>There are new bios that improve OC
>Immediately after I start flashing the bios thunderstorm starts out of nowhere
>bios flashing takes like 1 minutes
>5 minutes later theres a power blackout that last for 30 minutes.


That was close.

desu senpai

There's no reason to update your BIOS unless you're actually trying to fix something. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

I have a 40$ gigabyte H110 and it has dual bios.

Yeah. I think there's some H81 which doesn't I believe.

Don't you just pull out this thing if you fuck up and it resets all the settings to default?

Works in some cases but if you flashed the wrong bios that's not going to help.

The thing is, nowadays many motherboards have protection measures against flashing unsigned or unverified bios files, so if you were to tamper a bit with a bios file, you would need an old version of AFUDOS to flash it.

Exactly. That way there is no way to fuck it up.

>The thing is, nowadays many motherboards have protection measures against flashing unsigned or unverified bios files
My board has a redundant BIOS built into the board

>always installed manufacturer updates with the manfacturer's tool and always with stable power

>be me, many years ago
>ethernet port is not working on new motherboard
>update the bios with no problems
>this fixes the issue
>later on read about how dangerous that can be
It was an expensive computer, too. Glad I didn't fuck up.

>UEFI
>mfw the manufacturer failed at UEFI and it gets bricked when you change a setting

Libreboot was fucking easy to compile and flash. It's freedom respecting too.

>>be me, many years ago
who are you now?

Modern (even the cheapest ones) motherboards can be easily fixed if the BIOS flashing is interrupted. You just have to plug your USB drive containing new image before you turn your pc on.

That is if it works. Fucking trashy h81-plus didn't let me. it's fucking deceased

>BIOS
>2016

How? Almost every mainboard is uefi

There's your business idea user. Make it happen and stop jerking off to soft core porn while eating fruity pebbles.

Leave dude.

>anti surge protector
Im scared anons. This is worse than anti ad blockers. How is this even legal?

got a hearty chuckle.
I almost set him straight, but decided it was pointless to try and started scrolling right as I put my mouse over your reply.
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>stable
dont listen to him, just jerry rig 12 volts from AA batteries you bought at a fleamarket and update your bios using that.

Come to think of it, I think my mobo has an anti ad-blocking chip in it.

That explains why I've been ordering so many products from Amazon since I bought it.

You guys are all forgetting the point of this thread though.

It's not about having a backup BIOS chip. It's about having a seamless method to update a BIOS without any risks. Of course risks are always a factor, but currently as it stands updating a BIOS can just randomly brick a motherboard regardless of how you do it.

If you get 100 motherboards and split them into groups and update them all with a different method/variables at least 30 of them will brick. Updating BIOS is absolute hell for large companies and the like so most of them hold off (huge part of why many just stayed with WinXP all these years).

pleb

>tfw want to update my chinkpad T420 bios against the latest h4xx0r exploit
What are my odds of just fucking my shit up?

Uehuehueh - that's probably bait though.

Are we ever really the same person we were back then?

I just upgrade the BIOS through the Gigabyte application in Windows.

Never gone wrong once and I've done it three times.

I'm not memeing. What's wrong with that?

I just chuckled heartily.. dont jump my shit over it.

The problem is, the batter only saves settings. Flashing the bios is taking the bios chip, removing all data from it, putting in a new chip operating system, and then pray to got that it fucking works because there is no going back.

He said leave because you're a newfag and you should have known what a cmos battery was for long before you found this site, but the internet is broken and normies are flooding in.

no need to get so angsty my friend

Slash vee slash

I'm not your friend, guy!

Dude, I'm a ne'er do well 41 year old neet virgin who lives with my mom and even i know what cmos battery is. I can't program and i must learn how before i'm kicked out. But, on a lighter note, I'm at the very least a bit smarter than you are because I know what a cmos battery is whereas you didn't.

I'd say 3, maybe 4

Large companies should order mobos that are easy to flash. Decent consumer boards have a backup BIOS and removable chips.